Numerous insects, including mites, lice, fleas, ticks, and bed bugs, can inhabit or visit the human body. These creatures ...

Only 29% of Americans know how to identify bed bugs, a new survey conducted online by The Harris Poll on behalf of the National Pest Management Association (NPMA) reports. That leaves most households ...

A protein that gives fleas their bounce has been used to boot out bacteria cells, with lab results demonstrating the material ...

Another cicada invasion is here. The large Brood XIV, which emerges every 17 years, is making for a spectacular natural event as billions of periodical cicadas emerge across parts of the Eastern U.S., ...

The large Brood XIV, which emerges every 17 years, is making for a spectacular natural event as billions of periodical ...

Kinfield makes one of our favorite sunscreens for sensitive skin, and its bug bite patches are also good for those with that skin type. In a box, you get thirty hydrocolloid patches that are ...

From bed bugs to woodboring beetles ... these voracious little insects love to chow down on all kinds of wood and actually burrow deep down into it, virtually eating it from the inside out.

The office worker and her family had fallen victim to an infestation of scabies –microscopic mites which burrow into the skin, causing intense ... The treatment can kill the bug and its eggs ...

Why can you see them? The five species of Cheyletiella mites live on the outer layer of the skin and don't burrow into it like other mites. The bugs can cause skin irritation and rashes, but according ...

A nest of bugs was burrowing into my left leg and crawling underneath my skin. I have to get them out! I thought, panicking. Grabbing a pair of nail scissors, I sliced into my knee, creating a ...